- Officials say they recovered the black box from the wreckage
The reason why a Dali freighter crashed into Baltimore’s Key Bridge, causing a catastrophic collapse, may be revealed later today.
Officials say they have recovered the black box of the doomed cargo from the wreckage, as National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Jennifer Homendy said could provide answers.
“Based on the data, we hope to develop a timeline of the events leading up to the bridge impact,” she said. CBS Good morning. “We hope to get that later today.”
It comes as rescue teams admitted their efforts have become a search for bodies, with six construction crew members dying in the horror wreck on Monday.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Jennifer Homendy said she hopes the freighter’s black box will provide answers to the catastrophe
Investigations into how the ship failed to avoid the bridge are ongoing, with an initial report citing ‘propulsion error’ as a possible cause
Stunning images show the mangled wreckage of the bridge, hours after it was struck by the cargo ship
Homendy said the black box could be the key to understanding the accident, which baffled experts and led to a slew of conspiracy theories online.
“(The data) will give us a number of parameters, everything from location to ship positioning to speed, you name it,” she said.
“We will bring that together to make sure we have a very accurate timeline of what happened.” We will be able to see any kind of power loss and report it later today.”
Officials quickly ruled out the catastrophe as intentional or an act of terrorism, and an early report from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found that the container ship “lost propulsion” as it left port.
“The vessel notified the MD Department of Transportation (MDOT) that it had lost control of the vessel and that a collision with the bridge was possible,” the report said. ‘The ship hit the bridge and collapsed completely.’
